The Queen Regent of Spain has fulfilled the dearest wishes of her daughter's fuithfal subjects in giving Spai g. The little Princess Maria-de-ins-Merceden, who took over the Crown from her beloved father at the age of five, has had a reign of less than six mouths, and is succeeded by her baby brother, who has the unusual distinction of being a King from. the tot his birth, Spain had acted much better than was expected under the rule of Queen Maria and her mother; but the birth of a son to the Queen Regent gives iferossed stability the House of Bourbon, and we trust that reign will be a long and happy one, Messrs. Schmidt & Ca, hav: reply to the letter ut P.M, published last week, h they atate that the fact nian Commiasion having decided in favour of the St. Chamond Tueret was known to them, and probably to the Editor of Engineering when he wrote on the subject on the 19th March last. But they do not cee that the verdict of the Roumanian Commission should be accepted by everyone, shed on 27th ult. @ telegram announcing the massacre of the Europeans at Harrar, and two days Inter some re= marks from a correspondent sugyeating tat the news referred to an Italian exe pedition for the exploration of Central Africn headed by Count Porro, The detailed telegrams from Indian papers eon-firm our correspondent's suggestion, and shew that the whole Italian expedition was murdered by the Emir.
A fice broke out at midday on Tuesday in Hankow Road, a few yards beyond Fah-kien Road, and the Firemen were on the spot, and had water playing on the flames, within seven minutes from the time the Fire Bell at the Central Station commenced to give the alarm. In five minutes afterwarda there was no further danger, the Firemen continued to direct liv of water on the smouldering ruin quarter of an hour longer.
of thy expected arrival of Signor Chiarini's Circus on Tuesday aftecuoon, large body of police were placed on duty on the Associated Wharves und at the approaches thereto, in order to keep the wharves as clear as possible of curious natives. 'The Deccwn, with the band playing, came up tothe wharf shortly after ule four o'clock, and the landing of the menagene was commenced almost immediately. A crowd of Chinese, doubtless' composed tos uraat extent of men employed at the wharves, thronged 1 TfONL Uf the atommer, and a large number of foreigners also cul-lected to watch the proceedings; but the effort, of the police enabled the landing of wale to be managed without dificulty. The fine horses and ponies looked in aplondid condition, and two elephants were watched with great interest by the natives, who collected six or eight deep along Broadway near the wharves to see the animals pass, many of them endeavouring to obtain peeps between the shutters enclosing the huge cayes in which the 1 era were cunfiued. A little foreign lad, who had never seen an elephant before, exclaimed as he saw there pou-
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